So why has Priestly chosen to descend from her ivory tower at Elias Clarke Publications\u2019s Manhattan HQ and rejoin fashion\u2019s front line? Priestly famously stepped back from public engagements within the fashion industry following 2006\u2019s warts-and-all documentary expos\u00e9, The Devil Wears Prada, of which Vogue\u2019s film critic wrote: \u201cit\u2019s so ridiculously fabulous, over the top and impossible to believe that you\u2019d think it was a movie\u2014it\u2019s certainly nothing like real life at Vogue.\u201d<\/p>\n
As Priestly emerged to take her place on the front row, speculation immediately began swirling through the Dolce & Gabbana\u2019s Metropole venue. Hidden behind her trademark dark glasses and ice-queen blonde crop, the chic fashionista\u2014dressed in a leopard-belt tan trench coat, black cigarette pants, and sharp-toed golden pumps\u2014gave little away as she strode to her seat. Kipling and their unknown\u2014but similarly, sharply dressed\u2014third followed in Priestly\u2019s slipstream, as other guests digested the full splendor of her arrival. Alongside Kipling, the editor-in-chief sat next to Naomi Campbell.<\/p>\n
After the show, the team from Runway were ushered backstage to discuss upcoming cover stories with Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. Afterwards, Gabbana said: \u201cPriestly is an icon. It is an honor that she chose to return to the front rows at our show today. She\u2019s amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n